Bobby: When Ah went to, when Ah went to school - they sent me to school - an the first thing they said, the teacher says to me, 'Shut your eyes'. Right? Shut your eyes? 'Shut your eyes.' No, no she says, 'Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Close your - .' Whit the hell's she sayin? Right? Somebody says, 'Shut thee een. Shut thee een.' Right? Close yer -

Gordon: Ach the teachers - we'd all different names for the teachers. Teachers were all different names.

Bobby: Miss Linklater.

Gordon: Miss Linklater, she -

Bobby: Kate, Kate Bog, eh 'White Bog'.

Gordon; White Bog.

Bobby: Aye. All different names, right?

Gordon: Different names, all bye-names.

Bobby: These names Ah'm given tae ye are not their true names, right? White Bog, for example's where she came from, right?

Interviewer: Mm-hmm.

Gordon: There were teachers there, Jessie Mun-, Jessie Munro, an Ah remember seeing her wi a, one o the Easter times, oh they're all fancy bo- hats, an I'd said to - Ah said, 'At a perty hat at thee. At a perty hat at thee.' [Laughter]

Bobby: A lot o folk were uneducated. They weren't, they weren't foolish, like, Ah don't mean bit stupid, but a lot o them - my aunt, for example, never went to school. Right? She, she couldn't read or write. A lot o them could- but a lot o them could read an write, there no doubt about it. A lot o them left school at a very early age from ten, eleven, twelve years old, right?

Interviewer: And what about yerself? When did you leave?

Bobby: Ah never went to school. [Laughter] Ye ken that spickel at me! [Laughter]. Ah went to school, aye.

Gordon: Nor a me. Just Cromarty Second - but mind ye there were three languages taught there in Cromarty. It was a secondary school at that time - education at that time - an there was French, Latin, an Science an everything. It was a good - very good school, Bobby. There were good teachers in it.

Bobby: Ah was unfortunate at the time. Ma mother died when Ah was about twelve years old, right?

Gordon: Ah was seven years old.

Bobby: My father he, he, he didn't pay the same attention, right? So Ah was just left to drift on like, left the school at fourteen